USA Lacrosse will welcome the men’s and women’s national teams from Colombia, Great Britain and Puerto Rico to Indianapolis to compete against the U.S. teams during the international portion of the inaugural USA Lacrosse Experience from Oct. 11-13.

World Lacrosse’s new streaming service, WL TV, will carry all of the action from the World Lacrosse Women’s U20 Championship from Hong Kong, China.

World Lacrosse partnered with leading multisport streaming platform and services provider Sportall earlier this year to deliver WL TV, a custom digital video platform that will offer live and on-demand content to lacrosse fans around the world.  

Head coach Ginny Capicchioni and her staff have named the 32 players invited to training camp later this month who will be vying for a spot on the final roster for the 2024 U.S. Women’s Box Team.

The three-day training camp will be August 23-25 in Utica, New York in preparation for the 2024 World Lacrosse Box Championships, Sept. 20-29, also in Utica. This is the first time that World Lacrosse has hosted a women’s championship in box lacrosse.

OWINGS MILLS, Md. — John Balsamo and Michael McColgan spent this summer playing lacrosse in front of sunscreen-lathered lacrosse coaches taking notes from their camping chairs. It’s showcase season, you see, and as rising high school juniors each of them hopes to hear from some of those coaches come Sept. 1.

This week was different. From the moment they arrived in Baltimore for the USA Lacrosse National Team Development Program Combine, they sensed a greater purpose.

World Lacrosse today announced the passing of a strategic measure to adopt a shot clock in international field lacrosse. The measure was passed via a vote of WL full members, which showed resounding support for the change.

Following a three-week voting period during which 96 percent of eligible members cast a ballot, the measure passed definitively, with 71 percent support. The result was consistent with recent polling of a wider audience conducted via WL social channels, showing 74 percent support in one poll and 90 percent in another.

SPARKS, Md. — Shea Baker (Boston College/Ithaca, N.Y.), Brigid Duffy (Army West Point/Queensbury, N.Y.) and Madison Taylor (Northwestern/Wantagh, N.Y.) have been named captains for the 2024 U.S. Women’s U20 National Team that will compete in the World Lacrosse Women’s U20 World Championship next month in Hong Kong, China.

I started as CEO of USA Lacrosse on August 24, 2021.

When I took the seat, the mandate was to build off the incredible work my predecessor Steve Stenersen had accomplished.  I walked into an organization that was financially sound and had a significant amount of knowledge and experience.

With that said, we were still coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic. Return to play and return to business were uncertain.

In less than a month, the 2024 U.S. Women’s U20 National Team will travel to Hong Kong, China in pursuit of a world championship.

For nearly 180 high school girls’ lacrosse players invited to compete in the USA Lacrosse National Team Development Program Combine, the pursuit starts now.

They come from high schools in 19 states and the District of Columbia and represent some of the most recognizable club programs in the country.

USA Lacrosse has selected more than 150 of the nation’s best high school boys’ lacrosse players to compete in the National Team Development Program Combine.

Representing high schools from 28 states and the District of Columbia, the players (listed below) qualified for the combine during a series of regional tryouts at which they were evaluated for tactical, technical and physical performance.

UTICA, N.Y. — World Lacrosse today announced that Turning Stone Resort Casino has joined the upcoming 2024 World Lacrosse Box Championships as an Official Event Partner. As part of the partnership, the Mary C. Winder Community Center – Oneida Indian Nation’s new 90,000-square-foot community center – will host four games of the historic double world championship, which will feature the best men’s and women’s lacrosse athletes from around the globe.